If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.